Ptesimogastroides
A small genus with less than 5 species described.
The synonym currently recognized is:
Sharkeyelloides Marsh, 2003 (synonymized by Braet et al. in 2003)
Unknown
Face setose, and finely granulate; scapus distinctly shorter than third antennal segment; frons and vertex finely transversely striate; malar suture absent; occipital carina meeting hypostomal carina far above level of mandibular base; temples striate dorsally and smooth elsewhere; mesosoma strongly depressed, pronotum, mesoscutum, scutellum and propodeum at about same level; mesopleuron finely punctulate anteriorly and glabrous except ventro-posteriorly; precoxal sulcus complete; antescutal depression distinct; notauli narrow and shallow; metapleural flange absent; surface of propodeum finely granulate, with a median carina anteriorly and medially; vein m-cu of fore wing meeting vein 2-SR of fore wing, vein 2-SR+M absent; vein CU1b of fore wing absent; vein 3-CU1 long and oblique; subbasal blister of fore and middle femora obsolescent; fore femur with a row of 5 spines; hind coxa anteroventrallly angularly rounded and without ventro-basal tubercle; hind tarsal claws with basal spine, middle tibia with subbasal comb of teeth; hind tibia with comb at inner side apically; first tergite trapezoid basally, with a keeled and more or less differentiated and strongly sclerotised sternite extending just behind level of spiracles; surface of first and second tergites longitudinally striate, striae hardly or not converging, following tergites finely granulate; length of ovipositor sheath 1.2 times fore wing; wings weakly infuscate and nearly completely setose (Braet et al, 2001).
Easily distinguished from other Neotropical genera by the presence of the wing-like flanges of the first metasomal segment combined with the absence of the antero-ventral tubercle of the hind coxa, the normal setosity of the ovipositor sheath and the open first subdiscal cell of the fore wing (Braet et al., 2001).
Neotropical.